Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee (born July 21, 1970, New Delhi, India), aged 56, is an Indian-American physician and writer (born 1970). Mukherjee is best known for The Emperor of All Maladies. Mukherjee's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Padma Shri in Medicine and Guardian First Book Award.
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Siddhartha
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Siddhartha in the U.S.?
#7600
US rank in 2025
~534
Americans share it since 1970
2015
its peak year
In 1970, 5 American boys were registered Siddhartha — 5,339th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Siddhartha’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Siddhartha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
The record
What sets Siddhartha apart
Ernest Hemingway (1899) and Robin Williams (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Siddhartha, according to the stars
Core essence
Siddhartha feels the room before entering it. The core of Siddhartha is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Siddhartha, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Siddhartha wants to be loved
Siddhartha wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Siddhartha and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Siddhartha creates
How Siddhartha makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Siddhartha creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Siddhartha is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Siddhartha is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Siddhartha fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Siddhartha's birth date. Working below.
Where Siddhartha sits
Six lines
Siddhartha’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Siddhartha Mukherjee
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New Delhi on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New Delhi that night
Computed for 28.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New Delhi at 9 p.m. that evening: Kornephoros of Hercules, within 7.2° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
New Delhi sits at 28.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Acrux cannot be seen from New Delhi at all: they sit past the −61.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon down and 89% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Siddhartha's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Siddhartha Mukherjee's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 21, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Siddhartha Mukherjee was born on July 21, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Siddhartha Mukherjee's birth date, July 21, 1970, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Siddhartha’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Siddhartha Mukherjee's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Siddhartha’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Siddhartha’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.4° to 1.3° orb
Siddhartha’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunsextilePluto2.4° to 3.3° orb
Siddhartha’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
stableMarssextileUranus3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.7° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.4° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.3° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Siddhartha’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 10°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 2°33′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 4°27′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°33′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mars 0.6°
- Eros square Uranus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Chiron trine Mercury 3.0°
Siddhartha’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Siddhartha’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
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Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on July 21
- Ernest Hemingway1899
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- Erling Haaland2000
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Mia KhalifaLebanese-American former pornographic film actress
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Siddhartha’s cards
Computed from July 21, 1970. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Siddhartha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q983450 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Moody College of Communication from Austin, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Siddhartha Mukherjee at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Quick answers about Siddhartha Mukherjee’s chart
- How old is Siddhartha Mukherjee?
- Siddhartha Mukherjee is 56 years old, born July 21, 1970 in New Delhi, India.
- What zodiac sign is Siddhartha Mukherjee?
- Siddhartha Mukherjee is a Cancer: born July 21, 1970, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Siddhartha Mukherjee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 21, 1970 birth.
- What is Siddhartha Mukherjee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Siddhartha Mukherjee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Siddhartha Mukherjee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Siddhartha Mukherjee's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
